Re: Packaging ITK version 5

[Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@gmail.com>]

Hello Steve, 

thanks for looking into this. 

Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2020, 13:07 -0600 schrieb Steven Robbins:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a bit of time today and thought I'd look into packaging ITK
> 5.1.1.
> 
> My thought is to upload to experimental first.  I don't see any
> "experimental" branch in salsa, but maybe I can just create one?  Or
> would it be better to  make an itk5 branch?
I'd suggest to use a new project altogether. Considering how big ITK is
it is probably not of much help to keep the whole history of itk4 also
in this new version. Maybe it would make sense to do a shallow clone of
the insighttoolkit4 repo to have a starting point. 

There may also be packages that need itk4 for the time being, at least
with vtk6 there are such cases, although they relate to the switch from
OpenGL 2.1 to 3.2, i.e. compat to core.

Since I'm out of image processing, I'm not really sure what is going on
there. I only remember that that latest versions of itksnap didn't seem
to be easily buildable with 

> Also, I recall that someone (Gert, I believe) once proposed dropping
> the python packages for ITK 5.  
Yes I did, my reasons would be that it makes the build overly long and
large, and we do not know what people actually need. My guess is that
people who do serious work with python itk probably compile it
themselves anyway.

> So my thought is to drop the python package.
Agreed. 

Best, 
Gert